title: Training general practitioners for very remote areas.
abstract: The days of village general practitioners doing kitchen-table surgery are long over in the industrialized world. Nonetheless, a number of remote communities all over the world are still being served by generalists working in poorly resourced conditions. While computer-guided microsurgery is being performed by the members of a surgical team in London, the only general practitioner on Tristan da Cunha, one of the remotest islands in the world, may be preparing to operate alone on a woman with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. What are the training requirements and skill mix needed for a generalist working in such a remote area?
authors.affiliation: University of United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates. chris.ellis@uaeu.ac.ae
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D001267:Atlantic Ocean; D002983:Clinical Competence; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D012424:Rural Population